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Did You Know? Prediabetes can Harm Your Heart

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:08:15 +0000

If you have diabetes, you probably know that you have a higher risk for heart problems. But you may not know that you have a higher risk for heart attacks and strokes if you have prediabetes—a condition where your blood sugar is high but not high enough to be diabetes. A new study, presented at an American College of Cardiology ...

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Novel Clues to Your Diabetes Risk

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:21:45 +0000

About 30 million Americans — more than 9 percent of the population — currently have diabetes, and one in three Americans is expected to have diabetes by 2050. Diabetes happens when your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Over time, the extra glucose can wreak havoc on health, damaging the eyes, kidneys and nerves and leading to ...

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Could Food Be a New Medicine to Fight Heart Disease?

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:52:03 +0000

A compound called DMB (3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol), found in olive oil, red wine and other foods, may someday be a first-of-its kind drug with the potential to treat—or even prevent—heart disease in the future, suggests a new Cleveland Clinic study published in the journal Cell. The investigators report that in mice, dietary supplementation with this naturally occurring compound safely inhibited atherosclerosis (plaque ...

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3 New Tests to Predict Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:54:02 +0000

Three new blood tests can help identify hidden risk for a heart attack or stroke in seemingly healthy patients—before symptoms strike. The new tests, now available through Cleveland HeartLab (CHL), check levels of certain biomarkers that have been linked to cardiovascular danger in peer-reviewed studies. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading killer of men and women, accounting for one in ...

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The Hidden Disease That Triples Heart Attack Risk

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:25:17 +0000

It’s extremely common for people to be diagnosed with diabetes soon after they’ve suffered a heart attack, according to a new study presented at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2015 Scientific Sessions. Patients often chalk this double whammy up to bad luck, believing that they were inexplicably hit with two unrelated conditions at once. In reality, having diabetes–particularly if it’s ...

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Dangerous Cluster of Heart Disease & Diabetes Risks Affects 35% of Americans

Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:06:30 +0000

More than one in three US adults have metabolic syndrome, a combination of at least three of five pre-disease-state factors, that doubles risk for heart disease and quintuples the risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study reported that from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012, overall rates of metabolic syndrome ...

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Help Patient’s Slash Sugar with a Few Simple Tips

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:24:52 +0000

There’s no question that an excess of sugar in the American diet is one of many lifestyle contributors in the obesity epidemic. What’s most alarming is the growing link between excess sugar and abdominal fat, visceral fat, low HDL and elevated triglycerides, not to mention risk of heart disease and diabetes. Back in 2010, as a response to the growing ...

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